Transferring Old Records to CD's

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DrGregC
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Re: Transferring Old Records to CD's

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Update on my on-and-off-again project. My daughter - a physics PhD student - tried Audacity with variable results. The filtering was incomplete and there was a weird extra-terrestrial sound that developed as a by-product.

I am just trying to filter all the noise above and below the human voices on these recordings. Any help from experienced Audacity users is appreciated.

I played the rough unfiltered copies for my family on Christmas Eve. There were tears hearing the voices of our long-deceased family members. I would still like to clean-up these old records and burn some clean copies for posterity.

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Re: Transferring Old Records to CD's

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Audacity is great for editing, side-joins (in extended pieces that last for more than one side of a 78 rpm disc), and the like. I use ClickRepair for reducing surface noise and de-hissing (costs $35 but is well worth it).
Adam

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